632) "Too Old To Die Young" Brother Dege.

To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary / Chair, Ombudsman Services.

For Clarity Attempt 632.

632) "Too Old To Die Young"  Brother Dege.

Dear Mr Clark and Lord Tim Clement Jones,

In the future there will be many, many more who will be made old before their time.

Thanks to Tory-style generosity, working life has just become nastier, more brutish and a whole year longer. Or at least it will be for those who have the genes to survive the Prime Minister's surprise for workers born in the 1970's. Theresa May isn't engineering a society, "that should work for everyone" but one where everyone should work until they drop. 

Unlike Mrs May's, "Brexit Means Brexit" this one's a Clever Plan - it'll save the treasury billions as thousands fall abandoned by the wayside.

Actual hard statistics on the life expectancy of one group of workers facing these changes - teachers who work until 60+ - are remarkably hard to come by. Those expecting others to do what they wouldn't dream of, are sadly once again, failing to work in the interests of the people.

The Prime Minister's statements to the contrary become more nauseating by the day.

No-one seems to know what the life expectancy of a teacher who retires at the age of 60 actually is.

The TES messageboard suggests it's 18 months.

Mark McCarthy made a Freedom of Information Act request - "Planning Assumption For Teacher's Pension Scheme" but got nowhere. Apparently, the information is not held at the Department for Education.(www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/planning_assumption_for_teachers)

According to www.eurofond.europa.eu/observatories/eurowork/articles/working-conditions it's 62.5 years.

As for manual workers....This government making drastic changes to the lives of the people without recourse to any meaningful information.

The information is not held.

When writing to the Chair of Ombudsman Services, Professor Dame Janet Finch (Sociologist) we suggested that,

"It must have been an extremely stressful environment in which to come to work and difficult when there, to ensure that each case got the attention it deserved."

This was because the company's minutes spoke of the enormous pressure poorly trained staff were under coping with the unexpected torrent of complaints and DJS Research had highlighted staff who simply didn't understand the complexity of the disputes they were expected to deal with.

As a sociologist one might have expected Professor Finch to have been fascinated by such a problem. If she was she didn't say. Her solution seems to have been one of ditching information.

Question 8. Lord Tim Clement Jones, would untrained staff attempting to cope with a flood of complex property complaints and being told by unnamed individuals of their concerns about the levels of award being made not have had a dramatic impact on the way complainants' cases were handled?

This private redress scheme no longer publishes information on the way property complaints are handled or whether complainants are satisfied or dissatisfied with what the company euphemistically call their customer journey.

Q. Mr Clark, by failing to publish meaningful information on the way it resolves disputes or give the complainants who use it any say in how they are treated, how does Ombudsman Services:Property satisfy the government's criteria for approval and how do those monitoring it on behalf of he taxpayer justify it? 

No deal is better than a bad deal - no information is better than bad information.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Gilbert - Workstock number 510458.

Jeremy Corbyn For Prime Minister.

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